i personally never used ns_conn but use writers all the time.

Stephen Deasey wrote:
> Here's some problems with ns_conn channel:
> 
> - ssl: if you use it (or any other comm module) you'll be surprised
> when 'puts' gets written in clear text.
> 
> - If you 'puts' rather than ns_write, you may be surprised when
> automatic chunking, encoding, compression doesn't work.
> 
> - maxconnections: The server thinks it knows how many clients it's
> serving, but by stashing away the socket and returning the conn, it's
> under counting.
> 
> - Accounting for number-of-bytes-written is weak (as it is with the ns
> background writer threads).
> 
> 
> We could fix this by creating a custom channel type to wrap the conn
> socket rather than use the standard TcpChannel.
> 
> Unfortunately, we don't really have the infrastructure to support this:
> 
> The current writer thread stuff separates the Sock from the Conn and
> writes directly via the NsDriver* calls, so it passes the SSL test,
> but doesn't handle the other stuff. For that, you really need a Conn
> available.
> 
> So, we might have to move to a model where we can separate a Conn from
> it's conn-thread.
> 
> Secondly, none of our Ns_ConnWrite* calls support an asynchronous mode.
> 
> 
> Or..?
> 
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